This round of Central and Eastern Euro-Barometer Surveys
focused on public support for the European Community (EC) and on
attitudes toward political and economic reforms and other issues
facing Europe. Respondents were asked whether they felt their country
was going in the right direction in general, how well their country's
economy and their own finances had fared over the past year, whether
they thought the establishment of a free market economy was right or
wrong, and whether economic reforms and privatization were occurring
too fast or too slowly. Satisfaction with the development of democracy
and with their own place in their political system was assessed, as
was intention to vote in the next general election. A series of
questions elicited opinions on the respect for human rights in one's
own country and on the situation for minority rights. Several items
concerned respondents' trust in various forms of information media,
including broadcasts from the West. Respondents were asked how
frequently they thought of themselves as European. They were also
asked to indicate how aware they were of, and how interested in, the
European Community and its activities and institutions, and to rate
how positively they regarded the European Community and the prospect
of their country's membership in the Community. Country-specific
questions were asked regarding sources of information about the
European Community. Participants were also asked about how the
economy, government, and private citizens might be advantaged or
disadvantaged by the country's increasing ties with the European
Community. The survey explored the prospect of future alignments with
the United States, the European Community, other East European
countries, other (non-EC) European countries, Russia, Turkey, Japan,
and South Korea. Opinions were sought on the fairness of European
Community and other countries' trade and assistance policies. In
addition, respondents' views were obtained on the break-up of European
nations, their personal likelihood of emigration to other European
countries, and the effectiveness of the United Nations and other
international organizations' intervention in the former Yugoslavia. A
few of these questions were asked of a small sample of persons in
Serbia and Croatia. Demographic data collected on each participant
include age, education, occupation, religion, ethnic background,
mother tongue, citizenship, union membership, left/right political
placement, sex, and income.

Multistage national probability samples and national
stratified quota samples. In Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, some areas
could not be covered by the survey due to hostilities. The Northeast,
Vaik, and Zangezur were not surveyed in Armenia, resulting in 90
percent coverage of that country. In Georgia, 90 percent of the area
was surveyed, including 68 percent of Abkhazia. The Transdnistria area
of Moldova was also omitted from the survey due to fighting, resulting
in just 82 percent of that country being covered. In each of these
cases, the final sample was representative of that portion of the
country that could be covered.

2005-05-23 This data collection has been
reformatted and updated in conformance with current Eurobarometer
processing standards. Many variable names, variable labels, and value
labels have been revised to current naming conventions. Some combined
variables have been broken out into several variables. Revised SAS and
SPSS setup files and an updated documentation file are now available
as well.

2002-03-07 A complete version of the questionnaire
is now available as part of the PDF codebook.

Notes

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